How To Determine If New Row is Selected in DataGridView

This should be simple, but I can't seem to figure it out. How do I determine if the user has moved to the new record row of a DataGridView in VB 2010? I'm trying to do something like this:

If NewRecordRow entered then
Do something
Else
Do something else
EndIf

I assume that code such as the above could be put in the DataGridView_SelectionChanged event and it would execute whenever the user navigated to a dirrerent row.

Am I close?

Thanks.

Dave

vb Code:

If myDataGridView.CurrentRow.IsNewRow Then

The problem with using the SelectIonChanged event is that it is raised whenever a cell is selected or unselected, i.e. highlighted, which can occur without the CurrentRow changing. CurrentCellChanged also gets raised when changing cells within the same row. Either of these events may be OK, as long as you don't mind the code being executed on some occasions where the user may not have changed the CurrentRow.

If your grid is bound, you should do so via a BindingSource, in which case you can handle the CurrentChanged event of the BindingSource.

1. Thanks for the tip about the BindingSource CurrentChanged event. I did not realize that the DataGridView SelectionChanged event fired when you changed cells also.

2. As you suggested, I tried:

If myDataGridView.CurrentRow.IsNewRow Then

but I immediately get this error:

System.NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code

Can you shed any light on why?

Thanks.
Dave

If you get a NullReferenceException then that means that something that precedes a dot is Nothing. On that line, that can only be 'myDataGridView' or 'myDataGridView.CurrentRow'.

If it's the former then that would only happen if it was in an event handler that was executed during the initialisation of the form and before the DataGridView is created. That could be the case and if so, you must write some conditional code to ensure that you don't try to use the control before it exists.

If it's the latter then that would indicate that there is no row current in the grid. Again, if that's the case, you need to write some conditional code, this time to check for Nothing first.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I did some quick coding and it appears the problem is/was that the .CurrentRow was causing the problem. I included this line before the main body of the code

If TblPrescriptionsDetailsDataGridView.CurrentRow IsNot Nothing Then

and I no longer get the exception. But, my main code seems to be functioning slightly differently now. I need to relook at the logic.

Thanks again. I may be back with additional questions, if you don't mind.

VB 2010 is powerful, but tricky.

Dave